Lawyers for Wadih El-Hage, who was convicted in 2001 of terrorism conspiracy, say the writings by Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Al Qaeda’s leader in East Africa, will show their client is not as culpable as the government had contended.

A top American official in the Horn of Africa said Thursday that none of the suspected members of Al Qaeda believed to be hiding in Somalia died in the American airstrike this week, but added that Somalis with close ties to the terrorist group were...

LAST week, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced some alarming developments in the war on terror. At a news conference, he said that intelligence reports and public statements by leaders of Al Qaeda suggested that the terrorist group was ''almost...

Why this particular fishing village, among the hundreds along the East African coast, may soon receive a new well, courtesy of the Pentagon, is no secret. It is not because the people here have to walk long distances and brave harsh temperatures...

Overshadowed by bombings in Morocco and Saudi Arabia, a separate terrorism alert has been building in this East African country after the reported sighting of an elusive suspect accused in the United States of involvement in earlier attacks on...

Sometime in the summer of 1997, an operative for Osama bin Laden sat down at his personal computer in a hideaway in Kenya. He was worried, he wrote in an angry dispatch, about the security of the ''East Africa network'' of Mr. bin Laden, the Saudi...